Whenever I am hot in a dream it is always quite literal. I am hot where I am sleeping and should throw off some covers or distance myself from the space heater.
Would you believe that my supervisor is off on vacation again next week? I mean he's probably won't have a job when he gets back but really. Or maybe he finally figured out that the site runs better when he is not around. He had some rumbles in the past with employees who were trying to help but he fired them fired them for being critical and actually telling someone who could do something about it.
Well they mostly went to another company which it turns out just bought our company. They're supervisors in this new parent company. Kind of like those sleeping animals ozoneocean has to so careful of not harming. He will have to be sooooo careful in future. So maybe he should go on vacation, find another job and get away before they get the chance to turn the tables call him to task and boot him out the door.
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I had a dream a few nights ago that I was driving around at night and I was really exhausted behind the wheel. Next thing I knew, my car drove too close to the median and hit the road divider in full force, damaging the front of my vehicle in the crash. I recall trying to figure out in my dream state whether or not it actually happened and if i had actually gotten into an accident the night before and ended up driving my car back home and parked it in the drive way. The good news was that it was all a dream. I wish I could have taken advantage of the lucid dreaming state after I came to terms that I was dreaming.
Well I dreamed I was eating some delicious Greek food, except when I really tried to enjoy the taste all I could taste on my tongue was the creamy mucus of sleep…
So I realised I was dreaming and woke up.
That was pretty disappointing.
Yay! It's Friday!
You know I wish I could play electric guitar…
This has been such a crazy week! Had my final installation on Monday (and then saw a play in the evening!), presented the draft of my Dostoevsky paper and picked up a batch of essays to mark on Tuesday, panel discussion on Wednesday, catching up on a ton of reading yesterday, and then my directed reading today.
I'm pretty sad that my Russian history class is over. The prof was really lovely and challenging, and it was cool having class with only two other people. We got to know each other pretty well. The prof gave me a neat book called "The Suitcase," written by a dissident about the eight things he brought with him when he left the USSR.
I had to go drop off a form at my city's other university today (the one I don't go to). It was quite a debacle. I got off at the wrong bus stop so the campus map didn't seem to make any sense, and then my phone died so I had no idea where I was. And for whatever reason they don't have phone charging stations (they're everywhere at my university!), so I ended up awkwardly standing in the doorway of one of the buildings using a random wall outlet to charge my phone. Eventually I found the right building but it was way too cold for the amount of wandering I did before I found it. Combined with busing there and back, dropping off this stupid form took literally my entire afternoon. But I probably deserve it for being too absent-minded to mail it in before the deadline.
Oh I do NOT miss the round-about faffing around I used to have to do at uni with forms, navigating terribly aid out campuses, dealing with idiosyncratic public transport etc… Nooooooo! You waste so much time that way.
And it doesn't get easier.
Even with cars instead of buses it STILL involves a lot of wasted time.
And even with new technology it doesn't change! I did most of my tertiary learning back in the '90s, but I did some more in the 2000s as well, and I occasionally have dealings so I go back to those places even now.
- A couple of years ago I was at an unfamiliar campus at night going to attend a friend's life drawing class and I got lost there. Google maps was useless for finding the location WITHIN the campus, and my phone was gradually dying and it was raining and cold… And my idiot friend wouldn't answer his phone because he had it set up to play music for the life drawing session.
And now you know why being a security guard can be so rewarding or a colossal pain. Where phones and maps fail, ask the dumb guy in the uniform checking id's.
I taught map reading and land navigation in the Army so I can find my way anywhere. But people who have no idea about the orientation of your map to the terrain or that a GPS can be stymied if someone wants 751 to come before 750 on a street… are my stock in trade. And then there are typos on invoices.
This is for 761 Cliff road.
There is no 761 Cliff road. The numbers end at 751.
Well it says 761.
Then it's a building that doesn't exist. It says Pse&g, they're at 751. So it's a typo.
Don't argue, just take it there and see if I am not right.
ozoneocean wrote:
Google maps was useless for finding the location WITHIN the campus, and my phone was gradually dying and it was raining and cold… And my idiot friend wouldn't answer his phone because he had it set up to play music for the life drawing session.
Yes, this was exactly the problem! Aside from the idiot friend, I mean. My maps app could get me to campus, but not to individual buildings. So I was stuck trying to use the university's weird and not-very-useful campus map.
bravo1102 wrote:
And now you know why being a security guard can be so rewarding or a colossal pain. Where phones and maps fail, ask the dumb guy in the uniform checking id's.
That would have been the smart thing to do! I didn't seen any security guards (not a big thing at universities here, my own university only has like two), but there were definitely a bunch of people at various information desks who I could have asked. I was just feeling too shy, which is pretty silly.
I always ask people, but it's rare for them to know anything I find.
When I eat sweat stuff these days or even just have a single spoon of sugar in my tea it always leaves a very sour, acidic after-taste in my mouth. It's getting so bad that I'm seriously thinking about giving up sweat stuff altogether.
I LOVE sweat things, but as things stand now I need to eat something salty or just eat straight salt afterwards to get rid of the acid taste- or try and do that with a carrot or something instead. So it makes eating sweat snacks a rather pointless experience all up.
Does anyone else have that issue? I'm really curious to know!
It's mostly a problem with sugar and processed foods. Not an issue with sweat fruits or vegetables.
ozoneocean wrote:
I always ask people, but it's rare for them to know anything I find.
Reason # 587 Why it sucks to be me. I'm the only guy who knows and can explain it clearly.
I have a delivery for 1201 Middlesex Avenue.
The GPS thinks you can cross the railway tracks to get there, but they never finished the road and it's not a through street.
But it says I can turn left.
Not a through street there's a kind of a trail for bicycles but not this.
But…
Go back to the stop sign, turn right, then at the light bear right and go under the bridge, then take Prologis Way and that takes you to Middlesex avanue. (I figured all that out just looking at a map. Wow. Me be have'um brain thingee and ooze dem oo!)
Great satellite picture sir, but you're holding it upside down. That's why you want to go right when it's left.
Well this is what we're interested in leasing.
Well sir it won't look anything like that if you continue to hold the picture upside down.
Like the time I lost my passport in Athens last year and Google maps informed me that the closest Australian Embassy was in Bulgaria… or Massachusetts. Seriously WTF????
I seems the Australian government is shit about getting those very important offices marked on Google maps- Either through wilful carelessness or a very mistaken crazy insane moronic idea of security.
I suspect the latter, because they ARE a crazy stupid bunch, and the security at the embassy was WAY heavier than it needed to be- not like the US embassy, but heavy in its own way.
The US embassy was a literal fortress, as you'd expect from the American empire :)
It had a fence made from 3 metre sharpened steel pailings all around it, like the US border fence outside San Diego. Mirrored armoured guard houses parked out the front- those are manned by Greek police officers I discovered. People can't even get into the compound (which takes up its own city block), unless they convince the US officer at the intimidating security station at the front fence. They just have to line up in the sun and rain on the wide pathway outside.
The Australian embassy by stark contrast is more like a secret agency- hidden on an upper floor of a nondescript office building. Once you find your way up there you almost need to get strip searched just to get through into the front lobby. And you don't get any further than that anyway. You communicate with the Greek staff who man it through armoured glass and closed circuit cameras.
Well it's not like Greece was the very picture of idyllic peace. A little domestic turmoil and the embassies arm up.
And the Australian embassy knew some guy was about to lose his passport so they removed the location from Google and tried to hide. But you found them anyway.
ozoneocean wrote:
Yes! I already gave up on acoustic, I like to imagine I'll try harder on electric. Has to have heavy distortion though 'cos I love that noise…
But are you talking distortion in a hair metal sense, or like Metallica, or that kind of classic Pagey type thing, or my personal favourite - super fuzzy fuzz box?
Wow… had some kind of story pop in my head at work. It's about a very rich guy who was single and had no girlfriends. Everyone knew he wanted to have no romantic relations with anyone and that he was okay with being unmarried without children.
Then he dies… unusually… No one knows the cause of death, but a woman shows up with what appears to be an authentic last will and testament. She claims he had romantic relations with her and that he named her the reciever of his estate. The lawyers look at the will and confirm that it is authentic, but the man's friends (most of them female) have doubts about her claim…
Could make for mystery novel… if only I didn't fall asleep when actually trying to write one…
I think he means "wowie bar" and slide? Or at least that's what I heard it called by my musician college roommates. One was really into the different guitar techniques of Jimmy Page and Pete Townsend. He could talk about it for hours boring everyone but he was so animated and obviously totally absorbed in the music. There was another who went on like that about bassists. Before them I had just never been into music outside of listening to the radio and my Dr. Demento.
Anyway that's what I think he means.
I am certainly not a guitar guy in any sense but I think a wowie bar puts tension (or releases it?) on the strings, so doesn't distort all the sound, just adds an effect. Slides are a way of playing… -John Paul Jones is AMAZING on a lapsteel guitar using a slide doing The Levee Breaks here:
https://soundcloud.com/michael-john-morris/when-the-levee-breaks-john-paul-jones-seattle-1999
Such a beautifully heavy sound.:D
Mainly I think you tend to need fuzz boxes and things setup between the guitar and the amp to distort the signal in just the right way. Though These days I'm sure you could do it all digitally very easily from the amp itself or even from the guitar.
Here is something very interesting!
Did you know that the "heimlich manoeuvre" is totally unscientific bullshit and that Dr Heimlich was a crazy fruitloop?
Yup:
http://www.accreditedfirstaid.com.au/2014/08/22/the-heimlich-manouevre-why-dont-we-use-it/
It's just one of those totally bullshit things that found its way into popculture that we all idiotically believe, like radioactivity glowing green, all unfamiliar meat tasting like chicken, catching a cold from being in the rain, vitamin C being good for a flu, bulls charging red rags, virgins having painful first time sex because they have to break their hymen, goldfish having no memory, people being left or right brained, that sort of thing. :)
Whammy bar is the term usually used, or tremelo arm as Fender call it, even though it produces vibrato, not tremelo. Anyway, Page didn't use one. He had the minimum of distortion needed, keeping all the edge a dynamics. Once you crank it past a certain point it smoothes out and the dynamics are gone. Add a bunch of electronic processing and voilà - hair metal!
But if you like guitars to sound like lions and other creatures native to the savannah, check out Adrian Belew. He had a track called Lone Rhino, full of terrifying guitar Rhino noises. That was before he found out rhino's don't make much noise at all.
It is only dangerous if done incorrectly. As someone who has used it on choking victims I do agree that three sharp back bows work just as well. It is one thing to talk about somethings and quite another to find yourself on the spot having to do it.
As for the injuries, CPR can be just as dangerous (broken ribs and more) but it's better than nothing.
I can recommend a ukulele for portability and 'fireside-ness'. I have an 8-string tenor Lanikai which gives a great sound for little effort. Guitar chords I find difficult, but uke chords are (mostly) easy. Except for B. B is a bitch. That might be why I play so many songs in G-C-D or C-F-G. 12-bar blues on the uke … it's not as bad as you'd think.
Guitar cords are even more nonsensical to me than advanced algebra. :(
Giving them better names would've been a better way to go: "this cord is Dave, this one is Jim and this is Sarah. This cord is called Arse Bastard in the Well."
I forgot my apricot bar today. :(
I have no snack at work! Dammit! I'll just have to drink more tea. Boo.
Bugger! Bum! Dicks! Great hairy balls of fire! :( :( :(
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